Privatization for the public good?
Subtitle: welfare effects of private intervention in Latin America
By: Alberto Chong, editor
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [Texte imprime ] :
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781597820608
Subjects: Privatization; Privatisations; Aspect social; Privatisation
Other titles: Welfare effects of private intervention in Latin America; Foreword / Santiago Levy.; On the social effects of privatizations in Latin America / Alberto Chong.; Water expansion in shantytowns : health and savings / Sebastia n Galiani, Marti n Gonza lez-Rozada, Ernesto Schargrodsky.; Impact of electricity sector privatization on public health / Marti n Gonza lez-Eiras, Marti n A. Rossi.; Water sector privatization in Colombia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Mauricio Olivera.; Stay public or go private? : a comparative analysis of water services between Quito and Guayaquil / Paul Carrillo, Orazio Bellettini, Elizabeth Coombs.; Access to telephone services and household income in poor rural areas using a quasi-natural experiment in Peru / Alberto Chong, Virgilio Galdo, Ma ximo Torero.; Learning from an incomplete electricity privatization process in rural Peru / Lorena Alca zar, Eduardo Nakasone, Ma ximo Torero.
Notes: Bibliogr. p. [205]-227. Index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Santiago Levy; title: On the social effects of privatizations in Latin America / Alberto Chong; title: Water expansion in shantytowns : health and savings / Sebastia n Galiani, Marti n Gonza lez-Rozada, Ernesto Schargrodsky; title: The impact of electricity sector privatization on public health / Marti n Gonza lez-Eiras, Marti n A. Rossi; title: Water sector privatization in Colombia / Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Mauricio Olivera; title: Stay public or go private? : a comparative analysis of water services between Quito and Guayaquil / Paul Carrillo, Orazio Bellettini, Elizabeth Coombs; title: Access to telephone services and household income in poor rural areas using a quasi-natural experiment in Peru / Alberto Chong, Virgilio Galdo, Ma ximo Torero; title: Learning from an incomplete electricity privatization process in rural Peru / Lorena Alca zar, Eduardo Nakasone, Ma ximo Torero.